Tag Archives: Susan Castillo Street

I saw a coin in the waterand thought it might be a goldfishor a lost spangle of sunor a wish made by loversor a gambler rolling the dice.

Susan Castillo Street is an international woman of mystery. She has published three collections of poems, The Candlewoman’s Trade (2003), Abiding Chemistry, (2015), and Constellations (2016), as well as in several leading journals and anthologies. She is owned by two cats, Dan and Eric.

After that, as I drifted off to sleepI’d see her floating in the air outside my window,rippling arms the colour of the sky, calling,telling me I should’ve been the one to die.You never told me, my dead sister.It’s our family’s grownupswho know how to splinter hearts with wordsas blue and cold as ice.

Susan Castillo Street is an international woman of mystery. She has published three collections of poems, The Candlewoman’s Trade (2003), Abiding Chemistry, (2015), and Constellations (2016), as well as in several leading journals and anthologies. She is owned by two cats, Dan and Eric.